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Glaciation

Glaciation. Chapter 17 PFHS Geology. GLACIAL LANDFORMS SHAPE MOUNTAINS. Ice Plumbing Erosional Depositional. OVERVIEW: With glacier. CREVASSE. Brittle deformation. Narrower with depth. Rarely more than 20 meters in depth. BERGSCHRUND. Climbers bane Crack that separates moving

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Glaciation

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  1. Glaciation Chapter 17 PFHS Geology

  2. GLACIAL LANDFORMSSHAPE MOUNTAINS • Ice • Plumbing • Erosional • Depositional

  3. OVERVIEW: With glacier

  4. CREVASSE Brittle deformation. Narrower with depth. Rarely more than 20 meters in depth.

  5. BERGSCHRUND • Climbers bane • Crack that separates moving • Ice from stable ice • Almost all mountain glaciers • Have Bergschrund’s

  6. HANGING GLACIER Occur in tributary glaciers, cause spectacular waterfalls

  7. SERACS Ice towers on glaciers Usually better-developed towards toe of glacier

  8. ICEBERGS 9/10 of mass below water surface Alaska: tides 40 feet high

  9. GLACIAL PLUMBING

  10. SUPRA-GLACIAL STREAM Glaciers can have streams on their surface!

  11. MOULINS Holes in glaciers that water flows through Connect surface streams to subsurface streams Sediment deposition forms kames

  12. SUB-GLACIAL STREAMS Deposition forms eskers Causes glacial surges

  13. ICE CAVE AT BOTTOM OF GLACIER Looking inside a sub-glacial stream; • Can be 10-km in length or more

  14. CIRQUE • a semicircular or amphitheater • -shaped bedrock feature created • as glaciers scour back into the • mountain. This is where the snow • and ice forming the glacier first • accumulates; it is the "headwaters“ • of a glacier.

  15. ARETE • steep-sided, sharp-edged • bedrock ridge formed by • two glaciers eroding away • on opposite sides of the ridge

  16. HORN • a pyramid-shaped mountain peak • created by several glaciers • eroding away at different sides • of the same mountain.

  17. COL • a low spot or pass along a cirque or an arete.

  18. GLACIAL POLISH Result of abrasion by sand at bottom of glacier

  19. STRIATIONS • lines etched in bedrock • underlying glaciers as • individual particles • embedded in the glacier • scratch the underlying • bedrock. • These lines indicate • the orientation of • Glacial flow.

  20. NUNATAK • Peak surrounded by glaciers • but not itself glaciated

  21. TARN • a glacial lake produced by scouring. • These are often found in cirques.

  22. U-SHAPED VALLEY • a glacially eroded valley; • also called a glacial trough.

  23. PATERNOSTER LAKES a chain of lakes in a glacial valley.

  24. ROCHE MOUNTANEE

  25. EROSIONAL LANDFORMS OVERVIEW

  26. DEPOSITION LANDFORMS

  27. DEPOSITION Moraines Moraine: an accumulation of unconsolidated material deposited by glaciers. These accumulations tend to be unsorted; that is, we find many different sized particles deposited in moraines, ranging from fine silt to large boulders. The sediment and rock material in moraines also tend to have angular edges. There are many different types of moraines, and depending on the type, the appearance of moraines may vary.

  28. TILL • Unconsolidated glacial • deposits that compose • moraines. • Nutrient-rich but poor soil • texture for farming • Much of NE USA

  29. TERMINAL OR END MORAINE • an accumulation of • unconsolidated material • deposited at the snout end • of a glacier • Marks the furthest advance of • a glacier • Recessional moraines are end • moraines caused as a glacier • retreats

  30. TERMINAL OR END MORAINE

  31. GROUND MORAINE unconsolidated material deposited directly beneath the base of a glacier.

  32. LATERAL MORAINE unconsolidated material deposited along the sides of an alpine glacier.

  33. MEDIAL MORAINE When two alpine glaciers flow together, their lateral moraines join, forming a medial moraine

  34. MORAINES: OVERVIEW Medial Moraine

  35. OUTWASH PLAIN Debris deposited in front of glaciers. Often sorted.

  36. KAME Caused by sediment deposition from water flowing through a moulin. Sediments more fine-textured than in glacial till. Generally cone-shaped

  37. ESKER Long-sinuous ridge formed by sediment deposition in sub-glacial streams

  38. Can you image a glacier over this esker with a large stream flowing below the glacier?

  39. KETTLE LAKES • formed by melting ice • chunks in glacial debris

  40. ERRATICS Large boulders left by glaciers in areas where they obviously don’t belong. Can be 10’s to 100’s of kilometers form point of origin

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